acidify

Sulfides also acidify the water, which can accelerate weathering.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024

Look to nursery shelves for products that will acidify the soil and blue your blooms.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023

Together with one of her Ph.D. supervisors, JCU marine biologist Philip Munday, Dixson pioneered research into the effects on fish of rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere, which cause the oceans to acidify.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2022

Likewise, coral reefs that help support the fishing and tourism industries are dying off in record amounts as oceans warm and acidify.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2020

After 24 hours decant the clear liquid into a second test tube, acidify slightly with HCL, and add a little hydrogen sulphid water.

From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Harry Snyder

Unfortunately, as CO2 emissions increase, it acidifies the ocean, which can make it less hospitable for life.

From Salon ● May 21, 2025

Too much nitrogen acidifies the ground, which reduces the amount of nutrients for plants and trees.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

Meanwhile, a growing shipping fleet continues to introduce noise and collide with large whales, persistent pollutants accumulate in the food web, the ocean acidifies, etc.; the list goes on.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 31, 2020

As often is the case in Peele’s work, comedy underlines the unease and acidifies into social critique, as when the nervous flyer approaches a couple of turbaned fellows who have not stowed their electronic devices.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2019

Filled with iron ore and other heavy metals, the sludge acidifies waterways, kills fish and aquatic plants, and, if ingested, can be dangerous or fatal for humans.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2013

For example, the U.S. regulated industrial sulfur and nitrogen dioxide emissions in 1990, but only after we had determined that they caused acid rain and acidified many water bodies in the Northeast.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 2, 2024

Low oxygen levels, in addition to harming sea life, can disrupt food webs and even make marine water more acidified.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2021

If nearby ski areas have to rely on more intensely mineralized and acidified water to make artificial snow, that could compound the problem, McKnight adds.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 4, 2021

PEA is known to warn mammals and sea creatures of predators and its effectiveness may be increased in an acidified ocean, researchers said.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2021

Lady Katrine Hawksby is such an acidified piece of envy, so jealous of all her sex, that "every commonly decent marriage of her acquaintance gives her a sad headache."

From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger

Few countries are more exposed to climate change than Tuvalu, a chain of coral atolls reckoning with acidifying oceans, tropical disease and rising seas.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

Marine heat waves, acidifying oceans and other climate impacts are “significantly altering U.S. marine ecosystems at a pace, magnitude and extent that is unprecedented over millennia,” the report says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

These plantations can also directly degrade ecosystems by reducing stream flow, depleting groundwater, and acidifying soils.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2023

It's well established that rising global temperatures, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, are making dramatic changes to our oceans, from increasing sea levels and intensifying storms to acidifying the water itself.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2023

It is separated from baryta by dissolving in a little hydrochloric acid, adding ammonia in excess, and then acidifying with acetic acid, and precipitating the baryta with potassium bichromate, as described under Baryta.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer